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variety, the belted piping plover. After the early 

 fall we do not see them again until May. 



BELTED PIPING PLOVER 

 (^Egialitis meloda circumcinctd) 



Adult male and female — Resembles the plumage of the piping 

 plover, j3l. meloda, but has a continuous black ring about the 

 neck, which in the piping plover is interrupted. There is no 

 difference in size between the two varieties. 



Downy young — Upper parts, pale cream-buff, speckled with blackish ; 

 forehead, sides of head, band around neck, last joint of wing, 

 and lower parts, white; line around nape, on wings, sides of 

 rump, and tail, black. 



Eggs — Similar to those of the piping plover. 



Habitat^ Breeds on Sable Island, the Magdalen Islands, Ontario, 

 Indiana, and Illinois, to Lake Winnipeg, possibly Hudson Bay, 

 Assiniboia, North Dakota, Wyoming, and Nebraska. Winters 

 in Texas, Louisiana, and probably the West Indies. Migrates 

 chiefly through the Mississippi Valley, but occurs on the Atlantic 

 Coast from Maine to South Carolina. Typical specimens do 

 not breed east of Lake Erie, but intermediates nest on the 

 Atlantic Coast from North Carolina to the Magdalen Islands. 



The western variety of the common piping 

 plover. This bird is common in Manitoba and 

 our Western states, along the Mississippi Valley, 

 into Texas. It occasionally straggles to the 

 Atlantic coast. The habits are precisely similar 

 to those of its eastern relative. 



SNOWY PLOVER 



(jEgialitis nivosd) 



Adult male — Forehead, superciliary region, indistinct collar on back 

 of neck, and lower parts entire, pure white ; a band across the 

 fore part of crown, auriculars, and patch on each side of the 



